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I'll ask the question on everyone's minds. Can an ad-blocking extension be made?

by johnnybgoode 17y ago

noaharc 17y ago
Privoxy is pretty easy to set up, and works with any browser. http://www.privoxy.org/ http://www.privoxy.org/
- behe 17y ago
  Is it me, or does nobody seem to quite understand why Adblock Plus is such a good solution for blocking ads? Let me list a few. Automatic updates - a requirement for me. Ads are removed as the page loads, rather than after loading. Element Hiding Helper lets me pick DOM elements to remove and create filtering rules based on that. And all of this is wrapped up in a nice UI too! Yes, yes, Adblock Plus doesn't block as much as Adsweep by default, but I don't care because I don't just use the default blocklist. I add my own on top. And I can see no way of doing that in Adsweep, so Chrome + Adsweep remains a no-go for me until they sort that out!
brkumar 17y ago
Adsweep (almost similar functionality as Adblock) is a greasemonkey script that works well for chrome. They have also released a extension for chrome. http://www.adsweep.org http://www.adsweep.org
- johnnybgoode 17y ago
  Thanks. I took a look and the Chrome extension is basically the same as the greasemonkey script. Does anyone know if this is less efficient than the way Adblock Plus does it? If so, is it possible to do it more efficiently with a Chrome extension?
  - ntoshev 17y ago
    Yes, AdBlock is more efficient because it doesn't load the ads at all while Chrome/greasemonkey load and hide them. No, I don't think it can be more efficient because chrome extensions like greasemonkey scripts cannot modify the page before it is loaded. I may be wrong, I had only a cursory look at the technology.
    - johnnybgoode 17y ago
      Damn, that's what I was afraid of. Thanks.
    - quoderat 17y ago
      "No, I don't think it can be more efficient because chrome extensions like greasemonkey scripts cannot modify the page before it is loaded." Thus guaranteeing I will never use Chrome.
      - ntoshev 17y ago
        Plain Chrome feels faster than FF with AdBlock even on relatively ad-heavy sites.
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        thesethings 17y ago
        I agree. Chrome is just incredibly fast, and Firefox, on the three major OS's in my life, feels slow after a couple hours of use. In practice, I always have at least 2 different browsers open, one of them usually Firefox, but Chrome is the fastest one, used for surfing, while FF for web-dev/management-y stuff.
    - mcav 17y ago
      What about "@run-at document-start"? http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=4478#c5 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=4478#c5

I'll ask the question on everyone's minds. Can an ad-blocking extension be made?

noaharc 17y ago

Privoxy is pretty easy to set up, and works with any browser. http://www.privoxy.org/ http://www.privoxy.org/

behe 17y ago
Is it me, or does nobody seem to quite understand why Adblock Plus is such a good solution for blocking ads? Let me list a few. Automatic updates - a requirement for me. Ads are removed as the page loads, rather than after loading. Element Hiding Helper lets me pick DOM elements to remove and create filtering rules based on that. And all of this is wrapped up in a nice UI too! Yes, yes, Adblock Plus doesn't block as much as Adsweep by default, but I don't care because I don't just use the default blocklist. I add my own on top. And I can see no way of doing that in Adsweep, so Chrome + Adsweep remains a no-go for me until they sort that out!

brkumar 17y ago

Adsweep (almost similar functionality as Adblock) is a greasemonkey script that works well for chrome. They have also released a extension for chrome. http://www.adsweep.org http://www.adsweep.org

johnnybgoode 17y ago
Thanks. I took a look and the Chrome extension is basically the same as the greasemonkey script. Does anyone know if this is less efficient than the way Adblock Plus does it? If so, is it possible to do it more efficiently with a Chrome extension?
- ntoshev 17y ago
  Yes, AdBlock is more efficient because it doesn't load the ads at all while Chrome/greasemonkey load and hide them. No, I don't think it can be more efficient because chrome extensions like greasemonkey scripts cannot modify the page before it is loaded. I may be wrong, I had only a cursory look at the technology.
  - johnnybgoode 17y ago
    Damn, that's what I was afraid of. Thanks.
  - quoderat 17y ago
    "No, I don't think it can be more efficient because chrome extensions like greasemonkey scripts cannot modify the page before it is loaded." Thus guaranteeing I will never use Chrome.
    - ntoshev 17y ago
      Plain Chrome feels faster than FF with AdBlock even on relatively ad-heavy sites.
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      - thesethings 17y ago
        I agree. Chrome is just incredibly fast, and Firefox, on the three major OS's in my life, feels slow after a couple hours of use. In practice, I always have at least 2 different browsers open, one of them usually Firefox, but Chrome is the fastest one, used for surfing, while FF for web-dev/management-y stuff.
  - mcav 17y ago
    What about "@run-at document-start"? http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=4478#c5 http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=4478#c5